Department of Computer Science | Institute of Theoretical Computer Science

Theory of Combinatorial Algorithms

Prof. Emo Welzl

List of known errors (last updated: August 19, 2013)

Page Location Description
5 Line -5 before What is Polynomial Time? The comma after the word algorithms should not be separated from the word by a space
34 First equation, last term on the left-hand side uj should be vj, and uj' should be vj'.
37 Line 5 The variable t should be from R+ rather than from Rn+
82 Line 2 of Lemma 5.3.5 The number of feasibility problems to be solved should be log 1/ε + 1 instead of log 1/ε (where the logarithm is binary)
88 Line 3 of Proposition 5.5.6 "Then, for all k=1,2,.." should be "Then, for all k=2,3,..."
95 First equation In the second term, the second quotient should be g2k+1/g2k instead of g2k/g2k+1
117 Exercise 6.2 In the claimed expression for gij, the ∇ symbol in the numerator should be removed
144 8.3.25 +ε should be -ε
146 8.3.31 The left hand side of the inequality should be divided by |E|
147 8.3.37, line 4 of third bullet The part "...disk Dq centered at q..." should read as "...disk Dq centered at q and disjoint from C..."
158 9.1.11 The upper bound on the required number of colors was further decreased by Kawarabayashi and Thorup in 2012
159 Second º bullet It is known at least since 1996 that vector and strict vector chromatic number may differ. An example can be found in Theorem 6.1.3. of the following diploma thesis: Clemens Gröpel, Über Approximationsalgorithmen zur Färbung k-färbbarer Graphen, die vektorchromatische Zahl und andere Varianten der Theta-Funktion, Humbold-University Berlin, 1996.
160 9.3.2, second º bullet The "3" should be in the numerator, not in the denominator.
166 Second-to-last line The word "with" should be removed
175 10.4.7 There is a mistake in the calculation with the constants; the square root of 1/10 should have been taken, and this would spoil the result. A possible fix is to write 1/30 instead of 1/10 in the chain of inequalities in the fifth bullet of 10.4.6 (which is valid, just by a more precise calculation with the constants) and then have 2/√ 30 instead of the first 1/5 and 2/30 instead of the second one, which works. The factor of 2 in front of RA can actually be dropped with a bit more care.
177 Line 1 The sentence should end as "...for which the correlation is at least 1/3 of the correlation of an optimal clustering."
201 12.3.10, second bullet The sentence should end as "...at most 90o." instead of "...at least 90o."
201 12.3.10, third bullet The inequality in the equation should be reversed, i.e. ≥ instead of ≤
225 13.3.31, second bullet ...for all i,j... should be replaced by ...for all i≠j...
234 tenth-to-last line The set {-1,1} should be {-1,1}d